| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SUNY series, frontiers in education |
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SUNY series, frontiers in education.
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| Contents |
On the making of good men : character-building in the New England boarding schools -- Chartering and bartering : elite education and social reproduction -- Patterns of upper-class education in four American cities, 1875-1975 -- Prestige in the Ivy League : democratization and discrimination at Penn and Columbia, 1890-1970 -- Undergraduates at Elite Institutions : the best, the brightest, and the richest -- Pathways to attendance at the elite colleges -- Economic pay-off of prestigious colleges -- Pathways to top corporate management -- Inside tracks : status distinctions in allocations to elite law schools -- Getting on the fast track : recruitment at an elite business school |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Pædagogik |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Upper class -- Education -- United States
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Social status -- United States
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Power (Social sciences)
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EDUCATION -- Special Education -- Learning Disabilities.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social status
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Upper class -- Education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kingston, Paul W., 1951-
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Lewis, Lionel S. (Lionel Stanley)
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| LC no. |
89031600 |
| ISBN |
0585054991 |
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9780585054995 |
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9780791400104 |
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0791400107 |
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9780791400111 |
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0791400115 |
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1438409125 |
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9781438409122 |
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